mate the Saints finished 9th in 2016 with 12 wins 10 losses in Richo’s 3rd season after building through the draft. Widely tipped to be making the finals after that. 17, 18 and 19 are 3 failed seasons by the saints under Richo.
Goodwin has credits in the bank. Nearly made finals 17 and a prelim 18. I don’t recall anyone from the club saying he needs to make finals this year to keep his job. Granted they’d have expected we would. Media love that stuff and will not let the club forget it.
Buckley had three s**t seasons, i get your point tho. Could throw Ratten in that pile as well, copped one not-even-that-bad season and it's been s**t down Lygon way ever since.
How are you expected not to win a game? Seriously? Who goes through a year not winning one? It’s really easy to fathom, we’ve had a bad year under Goodwin. One bad year. One.
Who is bailing us out? Are we in financial ruin again are? Richardson did nothing at St Kilda for 6 years, what treatment do you want? A 3 year extension?
Yeh mate, lets agree to disagree. Lets wait and see.
But you’re prepared to write us off after one year are you?
You didn’t answer my questions
Where did I write you off? I said over and over you have a strong list.
None of your opinion takes away from the literal fact we finished 4th last year. The rest is irrelevant
They've done that with the forward line and it looked like working until we lost all the tall forwards, the shift in confidence and style since Rawlings took over was similar to a change of coach and better than it was. Backline is coming along once it got the talent back and I think they are playing a sustainable style, particularly if Lever and Jetta jump up a few rungs. Midfield could do with the mental refresh that comes from a new coach and maybe shift a few structures and roles (which again, Goodwin and co have done) but the inside boys are mostly winning it and the outside guys aren't up to it and there's not a lot of options.
Maybe those expectations were too high? I had Melbourne 7th-12th at the beginning of the season.
Thats pretty reasonable but I think you'd be one of very few.
Who set the expectations?
Oh ok, so the media are right are they? I mean David King can get in the ‘lab’ and give you a formula to digest and then, wahlah, it’s palatable?
Shows how wrong the media can be.
The public and even Dees fans all bought it. Stop pretending this wasnt a thing.
Mate David King shot his load in 2017 when we beat WC in Perth by 3 points and declared we’d win the flag, we didn’t play finals!
